Fuel Cell
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Electric cars are virtually as old as the auto industry, but hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles are not. In fact, exactly fifty years ago this month, GM showed off the first one, which it called the Electrovan. This remarkable and innovative prototype for a zero-emission vehicle used the body of an adapted GMC Handi-Van, containing the first fuel cell used to power a vehicle. DON'T MISS: Honda, GM To Build Factory For Fuel-Cell Production By 2025 That powertrain derived from technology first employed by NASA, then less than three years away from putting the first human on the moon. But the...
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Hydrogen fuel-station finder app launched by Air Liquide
Infrastructure company Air Liquide is launching an app to find hydrogen fueling stations.
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Tomorrow is National Hydrogen Day, and Honda Clarity is there
Honda will use National Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Day to promote its Clarity Fuel Cell sedan.
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Military hydrogen-powered Chevy Colorado ZH2 launches
The Chevrolet Colorado ZH2 will begin testing with the U.S. Army next year.
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Price cut and monthly sales spike for Toyota Mirai fuel-cell sedan
Sometimes journalists miss the forest for the trees, and we'll plead guilty on this one. When we wrote last week that the Toyota Mirai hydrogen fuel-cell sedan was little-changed for the 2017 model year, with only one new color added, we missed one important element. That was, as several readers...
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2017 Toyota Mirai price stays same, fuel-cell car adds new color
The 2017 Toyota Mirai carries over essentially unchanged.
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Nikola Motor Company now says its Class 8 semi truck will use hydrogen fuel cells.
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U.S. Army, Chevy to unveil hydrogen fuel-cell Colorado truck in October
Chevy and the U.S. Army will unveil their jointly-developed Colorado-based fuel-cell prototype in October.
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When will hydrogen fuel be available everywhere in the U.S.? Poll results
While you might think that any zero-emission vehicle would be viewed as a good thing, hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles continue to generate opposition among some electric-car fans. Perhaps viewing them as competition for long-range battery electric vehicles of the sort now planned by virtually every...
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Toyota challenges high-school students to build fuel-cell cars
Toyota is teaching California high-school students about fuel-cell cars.
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Hydrogen cost could equal 50-cent gasoline, with renewable energy: study
Renewable energy could dramatically lower the cost of hydrogen, a new study says.
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New hydrogen fueling station closer to throughput of gasoline
H2 Logic claims its new dispenser can increase the throughput of hydrogen fueling stations.
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Kia has no plans to develop a "Tesla fighter" electric car at this time, the carmaker's engineering boss says.
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Next-generation Hyundai hydrogen fuel cells due in 2018
The next-generation Hyundai fuel-cell powertrain will debut at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeonchang, South Korea.
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Hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle landscape truly changed, says longtime expert
Hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles are getting a more concrete commitment from policymakers, says one longtime expert.
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2017 Honda Clarity preview
The 2017 Honda Clarity is a mid-size four-door sedan that will ultimately be offered with three different powertrains. The Clarity Fuel Cell, the first version to launch, will be powered by electricity generated by an onboard fuel cell fed by compressed hydrogen. Then, next year, two more versions...
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2017 Honda Clarity spy shots from testing show debut is close
If you're a nascent spy photographer for cars, Detroit is the place to be for the domestic companies. Southern California is the site for many Asian brands, even though Toyota and Nissan have largely decamped for other regions. Which is how one alert reader came to snap these photos of a 2017 Honda...
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Early Mercedes fuel-cell driver's 'sobering assessment' to industry
As the old saying goes, you can identify the pioneers by the arrows in their backs. Being an early adopter of new technologies can be exciting, but it can also require adaptations to fit into its limitations. Just ask David Wenger, one German proponent and driver of a Mercedes-Benz B-Class F-Cell...
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When the world at large thinks of fuel-cell vehicles—to the extent it does, at least today—they are associated with hydrogen as the fuel to power them. But a fuel cell, more broadly speaking, is any device that produces electricity from a variety of input fuels or energy carriers. This morning, at a briefing in Japan, Nissan said it planned to develop vehicles using fuel cells powered by ethanol rather than hydrogen. DON'T MISS: Mercedes fuel-cell GLC plugs in like an electric car: what does that imply? And, Nissan said, it will commercialize its technology by 2020, which is when...
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Mercedes fuel-cell GLC plugs in like an electric car: what does that imply?
This morning, Mercedes-Benz announced that its upcoming GLC F-Cell hydrogen fuel-cell crossover SUV would also include a battery pack that plugs in to recharge. Just like an electric car. It will be the first production vehicle in the world, in fact, to combine those two zero-emission powertrains...
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Mercedes-Benz GLC to offer world's first plug-in fuel-cell powertrain
Hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles face the challenge of a global fueling infrastructure that doesn't exist and will cost billions to build. Electricity, on the other hand, is pretty much everywhere. Now Mercedes plans to combine the easy recharging of a plug-in electric vehicle with the long-distance...
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Samsung says sayonara to fuel cells, focuses on batteries for electric cars
Samsung SDI is shutting down its fuel-cell division, and will reallocate resources to batteries for electric cars.
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Japan wants Fukushima to be major hydrogen production center
The Japanese government wants to promote hydrogen production in the Fukushima prefecture.
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Toyota Mirai seeks to reclaim green image from Tesla, sans Supercharger network
Toyota believes the Mirai can recapture the green image it cultivated with the Prius.
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